The Montana stranglers in Dakota Territory /
Berget, Ron N.,
The Montana stranglers in Dakota Territory / Ron N. Berget. - 174 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. - True crime .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
Francis Gardipee: Métis mail carrier turned horse thief -- Edmund Hackett: the crony capitalist -- Flopping Bill Cantrell: plainsman/thief killer -- Horse thieves dancing an air jig -- Horse thieves and vigilantes in Dakota Territory: Fall of '83 to the Summer of '84 -- The Montana Stranglers in Montana -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 1: through the Badlands to the Missouri River -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 2: Mouse River and back home -- Unhappy endings.
"In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent deaths of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty, and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains."--Publisher's website.
1467149713 9781467149716
GBC2E4738 bnb
020715318 Uk
Crime--History--Montana--19th century.
Crime--History--North Dakota--19th century.
The Montana stranglers in Dakota Territory / Ron N. Berget. - 174 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. - True crime .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
Francis Gardipee: Métis mail carrier turned horse thief -- Edmund Hackett: the crony capitalist -- Flopping Bill Cantrell: plainsman/thief killer -- Horse thieves dancing an air jig -- Horse thieves and vigilantes in Dakota Territory: Fall of '83 to the Summer of '84 -- The Montana Stranglers in Montana -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 1: through the Badlands to the Missouri River -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 2: Mouse River and back home -- Unhappy endings.
"In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent deaths of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty, and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains."--Publisher's website.
1467149713 9781467149716
GBC2E4738 bnb
020715318 Uk
Crime--History--Montana--19th century.
Crime--History--North Dakota--19th century.